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The Riverside Republican Women Federated group has been raising funds to help Fisher House in San Diego.

Previously the GOP womenâs group has given dictionaries to third-graders in the Jurupa School District, provided scholarships to well-deserving students and raised money for Wounded Warriors.

Fisher House is a comfort home, offering a place where families of military members have someplace to stay when their loved ones come home from the battlefields.

Some of those coming home may be missing limbs; some have mental maladies and chronic illnesses that will need medical care for different lengths of time.

Fisher Houses are built by the Fisher House Foundation and given to the government for every major military and Veterans Affairs medical facility.

There are more than 50 of these comfort homes that the Fisher House Foundation has given to the government. Many more are on the drawing boards.

Each Fisher House can accommodate approximately nine families. The families that stay there can spend time with their loved ones during what may prove to be the most trying times of their lives. Families from far away can be closer to their loved ones.

The families pay nothing for staying there. It is absolutely free. The government takes care of the maintenance and upkeep. The houses depend on donations of telephone cards, grocery cards, food, gas cards, cash, soap, linens, cleaning and laundry supplies. Just about anything you can think of they can use.

This past year Riverside Republican Women Federated had a festive holiday party, and everybody brought something for the Fisher House. In addition, members brought donations to the January meeting and mailed contributions.

On Jan. 23, a few members drove down to the Fisher House in San Diego and presented $1,040 in cash and gift cards to Kristin Palmer, a Fisher House manager. The Republican women also toured a Fisher house.

There are three of them at the Naval Hospital in San Diego.

It will be a challenge for Riverside Republican Women Federated to top the donations of last year.

For more information or to help, see the groupâs website at www.riversiderepublicanwf.org or call 951-780-7555.

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